The historical development of outsourcing: The latest fad?

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 444-450

  Lonsdale, Chris ^a   Cox, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Organizational change; Organizational structure; Outsourcing; Work organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142080800     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570010358384     Document Type: Article

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